Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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When I look into your eyes I still get weak And when Im this close to you I just cant speak And its hard to keep my hands to myself When I know I could never love anybody else
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I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.
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Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.
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I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.
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There's no one silver bullet, but money really is the root of all evil. The single biggest problem is how much more money is flooding into politics these days. It not only tends to enable a more extreme candidate to get elected, but because so much money is required to bankroll a campaign, everyone spends all their free time fundraising instead of reaching across the aisle.
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"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
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When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
